I picked up a Compaq Portable 386.
Triage done.
It's in pretty good shape. CMOS battery is done (no surprise). That means I need the setup disks before I can do anything. So those are on order.
Surprisingly, the company that makes the CMOS battery is still in business and the battery was in wide use. So getting a replacement was very easy. That's on order.
I pulled the floppy drive to clean it, but inside the case is very clean. So I just think I need to put in the 5.25" cleaning disk before I try out the setup disks will be good enough.
The hard drive is IDE. So I hooked it up to my Rosewill IDE to USB setup. No go. The drive spins, but the heads don't seek. No surprise there either. That was getting replaced by a CF card anyway.
The main thing that I'm tackling is the keyboard. While the keyboard itself is nice, the cable is disintegrating. This is a known problem. I have a cable on order that I'll have to pinout and solder in its place. But I can use the keyboard from the failed lunchbox portable as a backup.
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